LOCKS CAREER CENTER

The Locks Career Center is an invaluable College resource providing important support services to BFA students and alumnae, graduate students, and students completing certificates in Continuing Education as they pursue their career paths during college, in the transition to the work world after graduation, and throughout their professional lives. Experienced Career Center staff provide resume advice and career coaching, assistance in internship preparation, help with networking skills and job searches, access to valuable career information and resources, and exposure to industry best practices to ensure their professional development as artists and designers, and enhance and improve their employment opportunities.

MEET THE CAREER CENTER STAFF

Belena Chapp,
Director of the Locks Career Center, holds a BS in Art Marketing and Craft
Production from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC and a MA in Creative
Arts from Purdue University in Indiana. Belena is an experienced higher
education administrator and non-profit arts manager and has worked as a gallerist,
museum director, curator, development officer, arts and humanities consultant,
and educator. A member of the American
Alliance of Museums, she also serves on the Advisory Committee of the
Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts/Greater Philadelphia Arts and
Business Council and has been a regular grants reviewer for the National
Endowment for the Arts. At Moore since 2005, she helped to establish the
Business Scholars in the Arts Program and facilitates the Penny Fox
Internship Fellowship and Marian Locks Senior Award competitions. She
especially enjoys mentoring students to help them gain confidence as emerging
art and design professionals.

Veronica Scarpellino, Assistant Director of the Locks Career
Center, earned her bachelor’s degree in art from Monmouth University in West
Long Branch, NJ. She brings a depth of knowledge to Moore from a career that
has spanned many facets of the creative industries: a small business owner in
Philadelphia coaching fine artists in their careers; an art gallery professional
and director; a curator-at-large; a marketing consultant; a locally published
writer; an architectural model maker; and a regionally and nationally
exhibiting artist. In her strong advocacy for the Philadelphia arts and culture
scene, she has participated as a grant panelist for The Greater Philadelphia
Cultural Alliance / Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Philadelphia Cultural
Fund. She keeps her finger on the pulse of the Philly creative scene and
relishes using her wide interests and varied experiences to assist Moore’s
students and alumnae identify their strengths and follow their passions.